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This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

John Nelson Darby

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John Nelson Darby
Age: 81 †
Born: 1800
Born: November 18
Died: 1882
Died: April 29
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